Marc Cayce (born July 8, 1966) is an American film writer, director, and producer. His First film Nikita Blues was selected for the HBO Short Film Competition at the Acapulco Black Film Festival in Acapulco, Mexico. Due to Nikita Blues receiving much fanfare and critical acclaim, Cayce was courted by some of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies such as William Morris. Cayce helped launch some of Hollywood's known stars such as Brandon T. Jackson, Essence Atkins, Kat Graham. Early life Cayce was born on July 8, 1976, in Detroit, Michigan. His mother and father divorced when he was five years old. Cayce attended Redford High School, a Detroit Public School, where as a senior he joined the Michigan Army National Guard as a Military Police Officer. After high school, Cayce joined the Detroit Police Department as a Reserve Police Officer. Growing up Cayce spent much of his time watching television and movies. Watching movies such as Claudine and Cooley High greatly influenced his career choice. After spending a short time in law enforcement, Cayce decided to pursue his dream of writing and directing and enrolled at the Los Angeles Film School. While attending there, he met twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes, better known as the Hughes Brothers. The Hughes Brothers are twins and American film directors and producers, famously known for co-directing Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, From Hell and The Book of Eli. Cayce was encouraged to go to University of Southern California, School of Cinema Television. Cayce emphasized his studies on screen writing. After Cayce was fortunate to meet the acclaimed American film director, John Singleton, while pursuing his career, he decided to attend John's Alma mater University of Southern California (USC). There he met and hired his composer, Stanley Clarke, for Cayce's first film titled Nikita Blues. Career After graduating from USC Film School, Cayce took an internship as a production assistant at MPCA/Orion Picture in Santa Monica, CA. After numerous long nights, ending with him sleeping at the production office many of those nights, he worked his way up to an independent producer slot with Motion Picture Corporation of America MPCA/Orion Pictures. Cayce wrote a screenplay entitled A Chance Taken, for award-winning actress and iconic beauty Diahann Carroll. Cayce was then awarded a Warner Brothers Records multi-picture soundtrack deal based on that screenplay. In 1999, Cayce wrote and produced a short film entitled Nikita Blues for